In the storied history of Sri Lanka’s foreign policy, only a few names have risen to occupy that rare space of being ...

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has acknowledged and reposted a statement on X (formally twitter) by former President Ranil Wickremesinghe who had indicated his keenness to meet the owner of Starlink ...

Mr. Handunnetti said the government recognised the challenges that it would face in 2026 and 2027 through its Fiscal Strategy and Fiscal Risk Statements. Accordingly, the government has a strategy to ...

Revelations that a large consignment of red-labelled containers had been released on January 17 and 18 without subjecting them to a physical inspection were first exposed by unions representing ...

Sri Lanka is again involved in a controversy surrounding a foreign research vessel. Sri Lankan media has reported that a UN ...

With the acquisition of the Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC) by the Indian Defence Ministry’s Mazagaon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd., ...

With the National People’s Power Government led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake ascending to power with a large mandate ...

The Caribbean nation has become the first in the region to adopt UPI, with PM Modi's visit emphasising the advancing digital ...

The same way that the bond scam continues to haunt former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the container scam involving the release of a large number of containers from the Colombo Port without due ...

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga – who celebrates her 80th birthday on 29 June 2025 – made history in November 1994 when she was elected as Sri Lanka’s first female executive president. Kumaratunga ...

Former Controller General of Immigration and Emigration Harsha Ilukpitiya has pleaded guilty, before the Supreme Court (SC), to the contempt of court charges against him for failing to implement an ...

United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk made several pronouncements in Sri Lanka which tell us that he ...